Radford Medical Practice and The Student Health Centre is research active!
This means we take part in medical research to help improve healthcare. If you would like any more information about our current studies please ask for more information at reception. They will be happy to help!
Dr Gowda is our clinical research lead. Gillian Hickman is our admin lead.
Below are some of the current research we are taking part in:
Studies The Practice have taken part in throughout 2023-2024.
- Open PROMPT study. To assess the impact of long COVID on health-related quality of life, healthcare utilisation and cost to the NHS. And to undertake a health economic evaluation of future vaccination strategies, incorporating the impact on long COVID
Integrated Bipolar Parenting Intervention – IBPI study
IBPI is the Integrated Bipolar Parenting Intervention, an online support tool for parents living with bipolar. Our team of researchers, clinicians, and parents with bipolar disorder have created the IBPI tool with the aim of addressing the unique challenges of parenting with bipolar disorder.
We hope this tool will improve their children’s behavioural and emotional outcomes, improve the parents’ mood and confidence, and improve overall family functioning.
The current study will test the effectiveness of IBPI on reducing child behavioural and emotional problems and parent stress and anxiety, and increasing parents’ confidence and family functioning, as well as exploring the costs involved in delivering the intervention.
Our aim is to make the IBPI site available for parents with bipolar across the UK.
The Multi-Ethnic Lifestyle Study – MEL Study
The aim of the research is to explore how different lifestyle behaviours present in a population made up of different ethnic backgrounds, and to understand how certain lifestyle behaviours might cluster together and how this impacts upon health. The study will explore how different lifestyle behaviours and socio-demographic factors, such as someone’s age, ethnicity or where they live, occur in people who are generally healthy and those who have long term conditions. The study will now also look at how COVID-19 may have affected lifestyle behaviours.
Click here to see the poster.- Live Well with Parkinson’s RCT
Violence and Abuse towards GP staff –
General practitioners have experienced more violence and abuse by patients and the public since 2020, more so than hospital doctors. About 2/3 of GPs have also witnessed their colleagues being abused by patients in their practice, especially receptionists. This can lead to staff feeling anxious or stressed and some staff may take sick leave or think about leaving their job. This adds to the current crisis where staff in GP services already have high workloads and work overtime to meet healthcare needs of their patients.
PrEP in Pharmacy (UNITY) Study – Barriers and Facilitators of Pharmacists and the General Public Towards the Routine Provision of PrEP in Community Pharmacy in the UK (UNITY)
While knowledge of PrEP among UK gay & bisexual men (GBM) is among the highest in Europe [13] , a small but appreciable number of users reported a knowledge gap among healthcare providers, including negative judgements. Greater awareness among health professionals is required to ensure these experiences do not undermine access or adherence to PrEP. Additionally, knowledge remains low in at risk groups who may not actively identify as MSM, and other segments of society including BAME and in particular Somali sub-populations. More needs to be done to better understand why PrEP uptake is lower in these ‘at risk’ groups compared to middle-aged white MSM. There is a pressing need to study the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions (KAP) of healthcare professionals and the general public (in particular from BME and Somali subpopulations) regarding the barriers to and facilitators towards the provision of PrEP in community pharmacy. We would therefore like to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of pharmacists and the general public towards the provision of PrEP in community pharmacy to gauge their knowledge, attitudes and perceptions, with specific emphasis on BAME groups.
Click here to see the poster.
Past research/studies:
- Study about experiences of recurrent vaginal thrush to develop a new web resource for patients and healthcare professionals. Find more information regarding the study here.
- Nottingham City Council and the NHS are researching why people might not get their covid 19 vaccines- see the flyer here to see if you’re eligible to take part in this research.
- Principle Covid-19 Study- Principle is a nationwide clinical study from the University of Oxford to find Covid-19 treatments for the over 50’s that can be taken at home. The Principle trial is entirely remote. Anyone experiencing Covid-19 symptoms, which started within the last 14 days may be eligible to join the principle trial if they are aged over 65; or over 50 with an underlying health condition. If you are eligible, you can join the study by clicking here.
- The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants to hear the views of the public to understand and shape future mental health early support services for children and young people aged up to 25 years. They would like to hear from young people, parents, carers, and professionals to help understand their experiences and report on what support has been like at the early intervention stage. These insights will be collated into a report to help shape the mental health and early intervention and prevention services for children and young people in the future. Parents and carers are invited to share their views and experiences via an online survey by clicking here. Vital focus groups will also take place on the 2nd, 5th and 8th September 2020 and the opportunity to take part in a telephone interview is available for those who may find this more accessible. To take part in a vital focus group or telephone interview, kindly email sasha.bipin@nhs.net or call or text 07818580719. All engagement will end on Friday 18th September 2020. More information regarding the study is available here.
- NIHR Covid-19 Vaccine research: This research enables people to sign up to register their interest in taking part in vaccine trials for Covid-19. It’s available for anyone over the age of 18 and living in the UK. To register, fill in the forms available here. This link also provides more information about the research. You can also sign up to be contacted about coronavirus vaccine research conducted by NIHR here.
- Reboot Notts: This research consisted of appealing for people in Nottinghamshire who were experiencing stress or low mood to help them access online mental health tools. It included an online peer support website named ‘Big White Wall’ and the study was to assess whether it was more or less effective in helping people with depression and anxiety than the online information available from the NHS Moodzone website.
- Heart Surgery Priority Setting Partnership: This research wanted people to participate in asking questions about heart surgery. This is so that they could research into the progression of modern medicine in order to benefit patients in the future.
